The Future's in Your Hand-Held

By

Jeremy Wagstaff The Far Eastern Economic Review

Updated Nov. 29, 2001 11:27 a.m. ET

Okay, so my track record as tech visionary isn't flawless, but bear with me. After all, I'm the guy who thought fold-out keyboards for personal digital assistants, or PDAs, wouldn't catch on. (In its first year of shipping, U.S.-based Think Outside Inc. sold more than one million of its Stowaway keyboards, offering 24 different versions and making it the most successful new product for hand-held computing ever.)

I'm also the guy who last February described the credit-card-sized Rex personal organizer as "the...